Whether striving to protect citizens from financial risks, climate change, inadequate health care, or the uncertainties of the emerging "sharing" economy, regulators must routinely make difficult judgment calls in an effort to meet the conflicting demands that society places on them. Operating within a political climate of competing demands, regulators need a lodestar to help them define and evaluate success. Achieving Regulatory Excellence provides that direction by offering new insights from law, public administration, political science, sociology, and policy sciences on what regulators need to do to improve their performance. Achieving Regulatory Excellence offers guidance from leading international experts about how regulators can set appropriate priorities and make sound, evidence-based decisions through processes that are transparent and participatory. With increasing demands for smarter but leaner government, the need for sound regulatory capacity--for regulatory excellence--has never been stronger.;The challenge of regulatory excellence / Cary Coglianese -- Responsive excellence / John Braithwaite -- Regulating by the stars / Wendy Wagner -- Regulatory excellence and democratic accountability / Kathryn Harrison -- Beyond process excellence : enhancing societal well-being / John D. Graham and Paul R. Noe -- Regulatory equilibrium / Ted Gayer -- A risk regulation perspective on regulatory excellence / Bridget M. Hutter -- Regulatory excellence and lucidity / Robert Baldwin -- Regulatory excellence : lessons from theory and practice / Daniel C. Esty -- What makes a regulator excellent? : mission, funding, information, and judgment / Shelley H. Metzenbaum and Gaurav Vasisht -- Beyond best-in-class : three secrets to regulatory excellence / Adam M. Finkel -- Compliance, enforcement, and regulatory excellence / Neil Gunningham -- The role of policy learning and reputation in regulatory excellence / David Vogel -- Regulatory excellence via multiple forms of expertise / David Levi-Faur -- Insurance and the excellent regulator / Cary Coglianese and Howard Kunreuther -- A systems approach to regulatory excellence / Angus Corbett -- Performance principles for regulators / Donald P. Moynihan -- Measuring regulatory excellence / Cary Coglianese.